Commons:Batch uploading/Official Journal of the European Union

Official Journal of the European Union

Source to upload from

Eurlex: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/oj/direct-access.html

License

{{PD-EUGov}} for the EU itself and {{PD-EdictGov}} for the US side. Admittedly, I'm not sure how this will work for issues before certain dates (eg. before the act of 2011 mentioned in {{European Union Government}}) or prior to the EU's existence (i.e. during the time of the European Coal and Steel Community). However, due to the content being official legislation and communication I think it should be OK.

Description

Describe the content to be uploaded in detail (audio files, images by …), and what makes it valuable to Wikimedia Commons.

The files will be PDF copies of all issues of the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), the official gazette of the EU. Thus, it would be a useful resource for EU legislation and communications.

• Do the media URLs follow a pattern? Yes: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/[lang-code(EN, FR etc)]/TXT/PDF[or other format, eg. TXT, HTML]/?uri=OJ:[type, eg. C for Communications (Information and Notices), L for Legislation]:[year, 1952-2022]:[issue]:FULL, for example, the latest C-type issue in PDF format as of Feb. 8, 2022 is at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C:2022:056:FULL and the earliest issue in German is at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:A:1952:001:FULL.
• Does the site have an API? Somewhat. The official API can't be used for document downloads. There are bulk downloads available for issues since 2004 on the EU Open Data Portal. (per https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/welcome/data-reuse.html) However, there is a third party API (http://api.epdb.eu/) for downloading EU legislation.
• What else could ease uploading? Not sure.
• Did you contact the site owner? No, the copyright templates should cover at least post-2011 documents, but I think as the OJEU is legislation and official communications it should be fine as previously mentioned.
• Is there a template that could be used on the file description pages, or should one be created? One should probably be created.

MSG17 (talk) 14:47, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

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